_Anders Koskull_ cultivated the _genre_ picture of children in a more elegiac fashion; he has poor people sitting in the sun, or peasant families in the Sunday stillness laying wreaths upon the graves of their dear ones in the churchyard. _Kilian Zoll_, like Meyer of Bremen, painted very childish pictures of women spinning, children with cats, the joys of grandmother, and the like. _Peter Eskilson_ turned to the representation of an idyllic age of honest yeomen, and has given in his best known work, "A Game of Skittles in Faggens," a pleasant picture from peasant life in the age of pig-tails. The object of _August Jernberg's_ study was the Westphalian peasant with his slouching hat, long white coat, flowered waistcoat, and large silver buttons. He was specially fond of painting dancing bears surrounded by a crowd of amused spectators, or annual fairs, for which a picturesque part of old Düsseldorf served as a background. _Ferdinand Fagerlin_ has something attractive in his simplicity and good-humour. If he laughs, as he delights in doing, his laughter is cordial and kind-hearted, and if he touches an elegiac chord he can guard against sentimentalism. In contrast with D'Uncker and Wallander, who always hunted after character pieces, he devotes himself to expression with much feeling, and interprets it delicately even in its finer _nuances_. Henry Ritter, who influenced him powerfully in the beginning of his career, drew his attention to Holland, and Fagerlin's quiet art harmonises with the Dutch phlegm. Within the four walls of his fishermen's huts there are none but honest grey-beards and quiet women, active wives and busy maidens, vigorous sailors and lively peasant lads. But his pictures are sympathetic in spite of this one-sided optimism, since the sentiment is not too affected nor the anecdotic points too heavily underlined.